Physician review cause of death (labelled)

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-admin-CODsummary-labelled-2002-v1

Producer(s)

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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Nov 14, 2025

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High level direct cause of death (D) (dcod1)

Data file: admin_CODsummary_labelled

Overview

Valid: 328

Invalid: 3550

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 9

End: 10

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Uncoded	0	0%
0	Unspec/other	3	0.9%
1	Communicable Disease	155	47.3%
2	Maternal	4	1.2%
3	Non-Communicable Disease	136	41.5%
4	External	13	4%
5	Infancy	17	5.2%
Sysmiss		3550

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

High level direct cause of death

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: ulevel1 (table[s]: admin_CODsummary)
Variable is renamed and labelled

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